Prescott Center for the Arts To Host 24-Hour Play Festival 8/19

The 2nd Annual 24-Hour Play Festival set for Aug. 9 at the Prescott Center for the Arts will be fast, fun, and done in just 24 hours when six 10-minute plays are cast, written, rehearsed, and performed in only one day's time. Open auditions are Aug. 18 at 7 pm on the PCA Mainstage, and the festival performance follows on Aug. 19 at 7:30 pm on the PCA Mainstage.

Local playwrights and directors are teamed and select their actors who serve as the muses for the plays written late Friday night and early Saturday morning. Rehearsals for the new plays begin at 8 am Saturday with the final performance before the festival audience that evening at 7:30 pm.

According to Paul Epoch, coordinator of the 24-Hour Play Festival Committee, "Our six-plays-in-a-day concept is modeled after the 24-Hour Plays idea that originated back East. It's a theatre challenge that tests the skills, creativity, and stamina of the playwrights, directors, casts, and crew members as they try to beat the clock to bring these original short plays all the way from brain to page to stage in just 24 hours. It's a treat for the audience to experience the results of such high-energy theatre."

Contact the PCA at www.pca-az.net or call 928-445-3286 for information and tickets that are $12 per seat